Mihaela Marija Perković's Blog: Rantalica, page 3
September 6, 2019
SkON
SkON is taking place today and tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, Sept 6-7, 2019 and it is the third edition of the SF convention in the town of Sisak, Croatia, making it the second-to-youngest Croatian con. I have never been, and I have no idea how I let slip two years without attending, but have heard […]
September 4, 2019
ESFS Awards 2019
As part of the closing ceremony of TitanCon, which was also this year’s Eurocon, the annual European Science Fiction Society Awards were presented. Swedish fan and ESDS chair Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf managed to hand out a not small number of awards in just about 20 minutes, which must be a record of some kind. Croatia […]
September 2, 2019
Accountability: August 2019
I had such big blogging plans for August, and the month just wooshed by me. A month ago I would have been pissed off for not making the bare minimum I set myself for any month – 4 posts – but August was all holidays and fun and good tiredness, and very little time for […]
August 5, 2019
Summer Loving…. to Read: July 2019
July was all about working hard and the Hugos. It was hot, and ocassionaly very rainy, and the first July in a long time I mostly spent in Zagreb. I loved it. The month kicked off with Fantastic Zagreb, a local scifi film festival which usually features an awesome streak of genre classics in an […]
August 3, 2019
Famous Fan: Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf
I think I met Carolina at the Zagreb Eurocon, as I was not one of the Croatian fans to attend the Stockholm Eurocon she chaired in 2011. I am sure I know her through the European Science Fiction Society because it is strongly tied to her in my mind – she is currently chairing both […]
July 29, 2019
Sweet Lullaby of Rage
“I have no idea what to do…” the merwitch murmured to the giant jellyfish. The quiet sea creatures lulled all around her in the vast, dark depths. They did not know what to do either. But they could not tell her that. As their parents raged against the murk and the dark, spasming deep in […]
July 26, 2019
Summer SF Cons
I like my summers at the seaside and was never much one for traveling any place during the summer months that did not end up with me swimming someplace. (This is why, among other things, I loved the Helsinki Worldcon so much – there was fandom and swimming and sauna. 3) It is hot in […]
July 24, 2019
Summer Reunions
Summer used to be all about the sea, and for me it still mostly is. Years have passed and some summer days I have grown to love not because I can rush off to the seaside and spend days in the water but because they bring people who live far away back to Croatia. And […]
July 12, 2019
Ugljan
Ugljan is a small island across from Zadar, it takes only 15 minutes by ferry to reach the mainland. It is the island of my husband’s choice and the island of circumstance for me, and it took the longest time for it to become even a little bit mine. There is nothing wrong with it […]
July 10, 2019
Movie Mania: Alien – 4K
I was two and a half when Alien came out. I have no idea when and if it came to Yugoslav cinemas. Even in the 80s I would have been too young to be taken to the cinema to see it, not that there were any ratings in Yugoslavia that would have prevented it, officially. […]
